Microsoft fixes a slew of bugs in PowerToys with a single update
Microsoft has released PowerToys v0.100.1, an update that organizes after a rather hefty series of bugs introduced by version 0.100.0. The patch touches almost all modules of the suite, from the Quick Access panel to Command Palette, including Shortcut Guide and Keyboard Manager.
Among the fixes most felt by users is the one related to Quick Access, the quick access panel that crashed on startup or while navigating between different pages due to unhandled XAML exceptions. With this patch, the issue is resolved, restoring stability to one of the functions introduced most recently in the suite.
Microsoft updates PowerToys to v0.100.1
Also, Command Palette, the evolution of PowerToys Run designed to centralize commands and extensions, receives several fixes. The history of recent commands was not initialized correctly in AOT builds, the performance monitoring element displayed question marks on restart instead of the correct data, and the Hibernate command mistakenly used the Sleep icon. The dialog for pinning items to the dock has been limited to only those displays where the dock is actually active.
Shortcut Guide, the visual overlay that shows available keyboard shortcuts, would stop working when switching from one section to another in the sidebar: a crash now fixed, accompanied by the correction of numbering in the shortcut manifests and the addition of a dedicated profile for Postman.
The most discussed fix is that of Keyboard Manager: remapped modifier keys on non-modifier keys were delivered to applications as system events, with the most evident effect on the remapping from Alt to Backspace, which deleted entire words instead of a single character. The bug, capable of simulating a hardware malfunction of the keyboard, has been eliminated with this update. For those who rely on the keyboard for a good part of their daily productivity, this is probably the most significant fix in the entire package, as it intervened on a basic mechanism of the module rather than on an accessory function.
The list of fixes continues with Color Picker, where the main window could mistakenly appear within the zoom view, and with Power Display, which did not always succeed in waking monitors from standby and sometimes incorrectly detected the internal panel on laptops with dual GPUs.
PowerToys Run resolves a problem with searching Visual Studio Code workspaces, emerged after the editor moved its recent data to a shared storage area.
Completing the picture is ZoomIt, with the fix for a race condition in audio initialization during video recording.
Microsoft has not added new features with this release, focusing on stability after a previous update that, while introducing high-profile novelties like the rebuilt Shortcut Guide and the extension gallery for Command Palette, left behind several side effects.
PowerToys v0.100.1 is available for download from the official release page on GitHub.